Concept information
Preferred term
indus civilization
Definition
- In the second half of the third millennium (2500–1900 BC), a civilization flourished in the northwestern sector of the Indian subcontinent. It extended from Afghanistan into portions of Baluchistan in Pakistan, to the Indus Valley and along the tributaries of the Indus River, eastward to the Himalayan foothills and Indo-Gangetic plain, and southward to the Indian states of Gujarat and western Madhya Pradesh. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Indus Civilization]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/indus_civilization
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